drunken thief of a Jerry McAuley into an apostle Jesus; a debauched John G. Wooley into an evan of a sober world; and a dissolute baseball player i the most famous and efficient evangelist to great m titudes the world has ever seen. Here is the pl where we may find salvation and uplift of the s and culture of the spirit, and find our most extra gant expectations of spiritual inspiration to lo character more than realized.

Third, we will find in service of our fellow m following the example of Jesus who went ab doing good, the greatest realm of glorious bless to humanity. Expect great things in serving hum ity, and God will more than realize your fond hopes.

Oh, how much we need at this very chaotic h of the world's history, when so many are discourag that every true follower of Jesus Christ shall imit the example of their Lord and go forth to preach Gospel and seek to win sinning men to Christ, with doubtful or apologetic spirit, but in the a tude of Jesus, who waits, " Henceforth expect till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet.'

The night is dark, storm clouds hang low,
And fitful lights flash through the gloom.
Men do not know the way to go.

The deeper darkness tokens doom.
Before the darkness, souls are bowed.
The flashing lights do but betray
Black question marks upon the cloud;
And men are asking, "Whither way?"
The lore of man reveals no light;
Philosophy is blind before

The growing gloom; and deeper night
Reveals to straining eyes no door.

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But in the background, on the cloud
The great interrogations stand,

And hearts in agony are bound,

And "Whither way?" the souls demand.

Is there no way? Is there no light?

But o'er the gloom,

No, not of man. The voice of God breaks through the night, And Triumph paeans o'er the tomb

Of black dead hopes: God lives and reigns. His everlasting tidings bright

Will heal the wounds and wash the stains, And make the sad old dark world light.

Believe in God! Creative power

Responds to faith, makes strong the soul; And in this awful judgment hour,

No other cure can make thee whole.
"Fear God," "give glory," "worship him
Creator of the rolling spheres.

The light of life shall never dim
With him-joy of eternal years.
Beyond the turbid, murky cloud,

There shines the light of endless day;
Beyond the gloom palls that enshroud,
Stretches the holy, heavenly way;
Beyond the anxious questions rise
The glorious answers of our God,
So true, so sure, so just, so wise.

The way? The path our Saviour trod.

The greatest commandments in the decalogue a among the thou shalts. When the lawyer among t Pharisees came to question Jesus, and asked "Whi is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus a swered: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God wi all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all t mind. This is the great and first commandment, a a second like unto it is this: Thou shalt love th neighbour as thyself. On these two commandmen the whole law hangeth, and the prophets." So yo see, according to Christ's classification, both the fir and second in importance among the commandmen are thou shalts, and all the virtue in the thou sha nots comes from obedience to these two thou shalt

The very first step in the Christian life calls fo adventure. Christ was always for advance. Whe the disciples came to him and told him that all th people in the town where they were believed on hin Jesus said: "Let us go into the next towns." Chri is always for going on and doing more. He ofte

Isaid while on earth that he would and could have done vastly more for the people of his day if they had had more faith. When he wept over the doomed city of Jerusalem his cry was: "How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" If they had been willing to venture farther with Jesus, he would have saved them from a thousand woes. And there is not one of us that Jesus would not have already done more for, if we had only had the daring faith that would have followed him wherever he led.

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If we are to share the happy and adventurous career with Jesus, we must dare to cut loose entirely from sin and accept him, not only as our Saviour, but as our Lord and Master.

In South Africa there is a pagan tribe called the Red Kafirs. These people have the peculiar habit of rubbing their skin with fat and red clay, which makes them look like polished bronze. Those who are clothed wear red garments. The missionaries tell us that red is worn as a sign of their pagan religion. When one of these Red Kafirs becomes a Christian, the first token of it is that he puts off his red garment that is his open confession of this renunciation of his pagan superstitions and of his acceptance of Christ as his Saviour and Lord.

A missionary relates that on one occasion a woman clothed in her heathen garb presented herself to him as a candidate for baptism. He asked why she came

for baptism wearing her heathen dress, and she plied that she would gladly put it off, but it was only dress she had. A proper garment was provid and she put off her red garment forever. So Chr calls to men and women now to put away the red g ments of sin and be clothed upon with the white g ments of righteousness. None need fear their si are too red with iniquity, for the cheering call "Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jel vah; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, th shall be as wool.”

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The man who would go on adventure with Jes must keep alive his curiosity of mind and heart, order to feed his zest and appetite for new and inte esting and glorious achievements in high living. prominent physician says that the normal baby com into the world with knowledge-hunger. Through sense organs there enter into his tiny brain myria of messages; and his first life work, outside of nut tion and growth, is the interpretation of these me sages. Long before he can talk he is a human inte rogation point. In fact, it is curiosity, knowledg hunger, that enables a very small child to learn language more quickly and more accurately than ca a grown person.

After a child has learned to talk he becomes rapid-fire machine gun of queries. He is striving know, and the wise parent will go a long way patiently and honestly answering the questions a